World History Midterm Practice '23

Introduced the printing press to Europe

• John Locke

• John Gutenberg

• Rousseau

• Hernando Cortez

Believed in learning from experience, natural ability to govern, and natural rights

• Christopher Columbus

• Galileo Galilei

• William Harvey

• John Locke

Believed in freely formed government by the people and guided by the 'general will', wrote 'The Social Contract'

• Francisco Pizarro

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• John Locke

Advocated for a separation of powers, published 'On the Spirit of Laws'

• Montesquieu

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Hernando Cortez

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Landed on the shores of Mexico and conquered the Aztecs

• Hernando Cortez

• Vasco da Gama

• Isaac Newton

• William Harvey

Conquered the Incan Empire with only a small group of Spanish Conquistadors

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Isaac Newton

• Francisco Pizarro

• Voltaire

Sailed the ocean blue in 1492

• Galileo Galilei

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Christopher Columbus

Portuguese explorer who ventured down the coast of Africa until reaching the Cape of Good Hope

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Bartolomeu Dias

• John Gutenberg

• Isaac Newton

Portuguese explorer who explored the eastern coast of Africa and established a direct sea route

• Vasco da Gama

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Galileo Galilei

Published 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' and advocated for equal rights

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Isaac Newton

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Francisco Pizarro